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An AI-Powered App Has Resulted in an Explosion of Convincing Face-Swap Porn (vice.com)
Samantha Cole, reporting for Motherboard: In December, Motherboard discovered a Redditor named 'deepfakes' quietly enjoying his hobby: Face-swapping celebrity faces onto porn performers' bodies. He made several convincing porn videos of celebrities -- including Gal Gadot, Maisie Williams, and Taylor Swift -- using a machine learning algorithm, his home computer, publicly available videos, and some spare time. Since we first wrote about deepfakes, the practice of producing AI-assisted fake porn has exploded. More people are creating fake celebrity porn using machine learning, and the results have become increasingly convincing. A redditor even created an app specifically designed to allow users without a computer science background to create AI-assisted fake porn. All the tools one needs to make these videos are free, readily available, and accompanied with instructions that walk novices through the process.
Hillary pegging Bill for the nightmare win.
... is that people who are procuring illegal (in particular, kiddie) porn could then hide behind the response of "I thought it was fake". If it went the other way though and actually destroyed the child and exploitative porn market then it would be mostly for the better.
It goes a lot deeper than that. For example, now that I know this is so easy to do, if I'm ever on a jury, I can't really consider any video evidence as enough for a criminal conviction, unless it has a documented chain of custody.
Likewise, any video that would normally cause public scandal can be dismissed as, "oh, it's fake!" even if it isn't, which might actually be a net benefit for public figures and those in power.
Let's see who we wouldn't want to be able to visualize (in any way) having sex:
- Ernest Borgnine
- Marty Feldman
- Either of the Olson twins
- Steve Buscemi
- Vincent Schiavelli
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Christopher Walken
- Clint Howard
- Jack Elam
- Madonna
I'll skiip the obvious political ones.
Mimetics Inc. Twitter
Incorrect. If I simply overwrite data, it's gone - it is irreversible. The simplest example is setting a pixel to black; the algorithm is completely lossy - you can never reconstruct the original pixel.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
Face swapping in porn vids is a cute trick, but it doesn't take a genius to see the implications of this technology, especially when combined with synthetic voice technology being able to accurately impersonate anybody's voice with just a 1 minute sample. If you thought Photoshop fakery for political gain was bad (for example, the darkened pic of OJ on the cover of Time or the fake John Kerry/Jane Fonda pic from the 2004 election), we're now on the verge of a new era of video fakery for spreading lies, disinformation, and smear campaigns. It used to be said that "pictures never lie" but Photoshop put an end to that (yes, I know photo manipulation has been practiced for decades in the analog age, but it was generally beyond the capability of the average person). With video, the best one could do was to use clever editing to discredit somebody (as happened to Shirley Sherrod). Not anymore. Now anybody can make a scandalous video. If these deepfakes can be done by one person with a desktop PC, what can an organization with deep pockets accomplish?
Trump's head, Putin's body, Ivanka, and Bannon waiting his turn
Forget Bill; imagine the forbidden love of Hillary and Donald overflowing, spilling its star-crossed passion all over your screen.
"Believe me!" -- Donald Trump
but it's still not easy to deny a compelling faked photo.
Most of them will be quite easy to deny, simply by finding and presenting the original porn video.
Of course, that will require extensive knowledge of porn lore... or a video-frame-recognition algorithm with access to a database of all the porn ever made.
But until such algorithm is released to the public... it is up to us, ordinary humans, to take on the thankless job of porn forensics.
It's a dirty job. But that's what the tissues are for.
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